Bug#680103: [Secure-testing-team] Bug#680103: www.debian.org: "Debian testing security team" apparently inactive

[micah anderson <micah@riseup.net>]

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org> writes:

> http://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#testing reads:
>
> "The Debian testing security team handles issues for testing. They will
> make sure that the fixed packages enter testing in the usual way by
> migration from unstable (with reduced quarantine time), or, if that still
> takes too long, make them available via the the normal
> http://security.debian.org infrastructure."
>
> I'm not entirely sure (hence the CC to the team), but it seems to me, that
> the testing security team is kind of inactive. Judging from the archives of
> their mailing lists at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/ and
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-team/.
>
> Please correct me, if I got the wrong impression and close the bug, but if
> it's the case, this paragraph should be rewritten.

In most ways the testing security team was sort of merged into the
regular security team. The security tracker, and high-urgency uploads to
unstable are the primary work that happens. 

There haven't really been any DTSA (debian testing security
announcements) for some time now, partly because there hasn't been a
frozen testing that made it really necessary (there isn't much need to
force things into testing when they can migrate so quickly). I dont know
if there will be still an effort to do DTSA's now that wheezy is fixed.

micah